I’m surprised no one has talked about Walt removing the bugs from Hank’s office. Or did I miss a comment in this thread? They showed a camera angle that seemed to indicate that Hank’s office had a camera in it. Did anyone else catch this?
Psssst. See post #178.
Asked upthread. They do use odd camera angles at times, so it may not mean anything. But it’s another way this show gets people looking for meaning behind every detail.
If they intended it to be a shot from a real surveillance camera, they would have made the image grainy or had lettering in the corner or something.
What I thought watching that scene is that he killed Mike because he realized he could get the names from Lydia. The bruise to his ego coupled with the fact that he didn’t need Mike anymore made him kill him. Him telling Mike that was an explanation of why he killed him, and was a cold-blooded thing to say. I’ll need to watch that scene again.
No, he was apologizing. He said something like “I just realized I can get the names from Lydia. All this was unnecessary.” Fat lot of good that does Mike, who tells Walt to shut up so he can bleed out and die without a Walter monologue.
He shot him and then said “I just realized I can get the names from Lydia” and he sort of had an out of character almost Hal-like “oops” look on his face.
Yeah, his reaction was halfway between apologetic and “oh man, I left my wallet at home.”
Does anyone know…is more-pure meth uhm…less harmful to its users? Does it cause fewer side-effects (like FACE PEELING)? Are you more or less likely to have a deadly reaction to it?
Reminds me of Lance in Pulp Fiction.
This is 500 a gram. But when you shoot it, you will know where that extra money went. Now, there’s nothing wrong with these two. This is real, real, real, good shit. But this one is a fucking madman.
I’d like to know what a five dollar shake tastes like.
I would think a purer product means more harm from the actual drug and less chance of random side effects from whatever shit has been dumped into it to increase the product yield and from whatever flaws in the manufacturing. It’s not like they’re doing anybody a favor. It sounds like the most common adulterants of crystal meth are not dangerous: caffeine, sugars, and a dietary supplement called MSM. Meth has also been found that was adulterated with acetaminophen and ephedrines, and I found reports of IV meth users who were hurt because there was lead in the meth because of sub-Walt-level manufacturing and others who used meth adulterated with talcum powder and wound up with lung infections. I was going to say a purer product would mean more overdoses, but on second thought probably not- if the users know what’s in it, they’re more likely to know how much to use. If the purity fluctuates unpredictably, you get overdoses.
Clearly exposition of the macroeconomic effects has been woefully inadequate.
Well Walt has been acting all through Season 5 as if he was on meth.
Base meth can be absorbed through the skin. With the amount and concentration that they are cooking even with the bunny suits and masks it would be very hard to avoid getting tiny amounts on you. They don’t have a shower spray down system cooking in peoples houses, so everytime they remove those suits they’d be exposing themselves to some degree to the residue left on the suits. They also show them with masks off handling finished meth quite often.
In reality I think they’d both be high after every cook.
Well, no wonder he wants to keep the meth train going!
Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it, but were this season’s both halves written knowing that it would be split? Will the next episode be a cliffhanger, like the last of a season, or more mundane, like the middle of a season?
They knew it would be split and my bet is that it will be a cliff hanger with Hank finding something to point him clearly to Walter and one more major character dying.
Ah, okay, thanks.
I gotta say, with every passing episode, I get more and more worried about Jessie. I knew he was safe until now, but all bets are off.
I think Todd may know more than he lets on about chemistry and is giving Walt a false sense of security. Perhaps he is a grad student working his way through school as a pest control guy instead of a barista. 